CENTRAL IRAN, 13TH CENTURY

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A KASHAN CONICAL LUSTRE POTTERY BOWL
CENTRAL IRAN, 13TH CENTURY
On vertical foot, the interior with an overall design of fish reserved against a lustre scrolling ground, the exterior with a broad band of bold imitation kufic with scrolling palmette vine, bold cusps around the rim, intact, decoration partially vanished
8in. (20.7cm.) diam.

Provenance

Hagop Kevorkian, New York (collection label under foot, ref.2507)

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium Please note that the lots of Iranian origin are subject to U.S. trade restrictions which currently prohibit the import into the United States. Similar restrictions may apply in other countries.

Lot Essay

A fragment comprising the centre of a bowl, now in the Keir Collection, has exactly the same decoration of fish on a lustre ground (Ernst J. Grube, Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London, 1976, no.178).

The complete absence of decoration across a broad band of the interior is the result of conditions in which it was under the ground. It is however very unusual to find such a marked contrast in the degree of preservation between different bands on a bowl that has remained intact.

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